Thoughts from Tim Ball on ad homimem and ad verecundiam.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Train Wreck
Will Gavin Newsom finally put an end to the not-so-high-speed madness?
The Weekly Standard
It’s shutting down, after twenty-three years. Probably a victim of its anti-Trump behavior.
Here are the three pieces that I wrote for it, the most recent being my obituary of Jerry Pournelle. When I read my criticism of SLS from 2011, it seems prescient.
There’s a lot of talent there, from Steve Hayes to Adam Keiper and Jonathan Last, and Haley Byrd. Hopefully they’ll land on their feet.
[Late-morning update]
Thoughts from Rod Dreher.
Constitutional Hardball
Yes. Asymmetric? Not so much.
And related: Why campaign finance violations won’t bring down Trump.
[Update later in the morning]
Looks like Mueller and Weismann may be up to some hanky panky: The case of the missing/altered 302s.
[Update a couple minutes later]
And Mueller destroyed the Strzok-Page texts before the IG could review them. How convenient.
Michael Cohen
…pled guilty to something that is not a crime.
Despite all of the jean creaming among the Democrats and other Never Trumpers over this, it’s pretty weak tea, and has nothing to do with Russian collusion. I find Trump despicable, but if he were on trial for this, I’d vote to acquit.
Safe, Simple, Soon
NASA just had a setback in their ambitious project to make a reusable engine expendable.
An RS-25 engine just had a significant anomaly during a test fire at @NASAStennis. The test was aborted just seconds in. pic.twitter.com/77A0d8XyXK
— Michael Baylor (@nextspaceflight) December 12, 2018
Shame Storm
Thoughts on the viciousness of the Internet, from a thankful victim.
The Mueller Investigation
It’s just missing one thing: A crime.
The Yellow Jackets
Claire Berlinski (who lives in the Parisian district of Le Marais), spent some time with them.
A Lunar Colony
Bob Zubrin {?!) and Homer Hickam say we have the technology; let’s do it.
Update a while later]
Dennis Wingo: The elephant and the moon. (Not new, but first time I’d seen it.)